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 Commitments from the G8 on health stand to be undermined by a failure to tackle the global sanitation and water crisis. - 8 July 2008
 Find out how WaterAid is lobbying the Japanese Government to put sanitation and water on the agenda at this year's G8 summit. - 7 July 2008
 Idrissa Doucoure, WaterAid's Head of Region (West Africa), reports back from the Africa Union summit in a daily blog. - 30 June 2008
 A recent report looks at how WaterAid is the leading the way with mapping innovations, ensuring that access to water and sanitation reaches those most in need. - 23 June 2008
 WaterAid marked the 150th anniversary of the death of Dr John Snow in unusual fashion... - 16 June 2008
 WaterAid is delighted to have been selected as a charity partner for a brand new project called 'Girlguiding UK: Changing the World'. - 19 May 2008
 Eighty teams from some of the world’s top businesses are going head to head in a challenge of fitness, intelligence and strategic thinking in the Cisco Euro Challenge to raise money for WaterAid. - 23 May 2008
 On Wednesday 2 July WaterAid supporters and staff joined other End Water Poverty campaigners to stage a queue for the toilet outside the Japanese Embassy in London. - 2 July 2008
 Inadequate sanitation may be the biggest killer of children under the age of five, yet no governments are prioritising the issue, instead sanitation is the most neglected of all the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) sectors. - 7 July 2008
 WaterAid’s Policy Director, Margaret Batty, delivered a poignant speech at the UN’s 16th Commission for Sustainable Development in New York. - 15 May 2008
 Beach lovers can feel great and look fantastic in H&M’s new WaterAid bikini. Ten percent of the money spent on this summer essential will go directly to WaterAid. - 24 April 2008
 A musician with polio, who has dedicated his life to campaigning for clean water and sanitation, has been awarded the world's most notable environmental prize for grassroots activists. - 14 April 2008
 A new WaterAid report highlights blockages that stand in the way of development money reaching those with responsibility for delivering services in developing countries. - 8 April 2008
 illustrating the disease burden that comes with open defecation, and what communities in Bangladesh are doing to address the issue. - 12 May 2008
 Tap into WaterAid is a simple, inspired way for restaurants, cafes, bars and their customers to help bring water to the 1.1 billion people worldwide who have no access to safe drinking water. - 13 March 2008
 WaterAid's place on Google Earth's awareness layer, a powerful new programme to help charities reach ten of millions of people around the world, has been unveiled. - 10 April 2008
 WaterAid is delighted to announce that His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales has agreed to extend his Presidency of WaterAid for a further five-years. - 22 February 2008
 On 18 February WaterAid launched a new report, Giving sanitation the green light, as representatives from African governments, the private sector, NGOs and multilateral development organisations gathered at AfricaSan. - 18 February 2008
 The UN Secretary General Ban-Ki Moon spoke out at Davos warning the private sector of the 'looming water crisis'. - 1 February 2008
 Recent flooding in southern Africa has caused problems for WaterAid projects in Zambia. - 18 January 2008
 Celebrated on 8 March, International Women's Day is a global day of recognition and celebration of women throughout the world. - 19 February 2008
 Today is World Toilet Day and to highlight the fact that 40% of the world’s population do not have a safe place to go to the toilet, WaterAid has released a series of four viral films featuring open defecation in London. - 19 November 2007
 WaterAid hopes that the UN’s International Year of Sanitation will help position the crisis in sanitation more prominently on the global agenda by raising the issue’s profile with politicians, civil society, the media and the general public. - 21 November 2007
 Our Chief Executive, Barbara Frost, reports in the Daily Telegraph on the human and environmental impact of the sanitation and water crisis. - 21 January 2008
 WaterAid welcomes the publication of this years Human Development Report 2007/2008, Fighting climate change: Human solidarity in a divided world, with its strong focus on the risks that climate change presents for the world's poorest. - 28 November 2007
 The United Nations has declared 2008 the International Year of Sanitation. - 14 December 2007
 WaterAid's Policy Officer for Sanitation, Oliver Cumming, blogs live from teh AfricaSan 2008 conference in Durban, South Africa. - 18 February 2008
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